Plumbing Service Areas Around Aurora, CO: Eight Area Pages and Every ZIP Code Covered
Aurora spreads across Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties, and the places around it each work differently: their own water districts, their own permit offices and ZIP codes that cross city lines. Find your area, then call and the dispatcher confirms the address.
Why the area matters to a plumbing call
The City Charter places Aurora in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties (Aurora City Charter, section 1-1). A plumbing job in any of them can involve a different permit office, a different water or sewer district and a different rule on who owns the pipe from the house to the main. The area pages set those out one by one.
Where the dispatch network covers
Each area below has its own page. Distances run from Aurora, in miles up to 12.0 and as a drive time beyond.
Within about 15 minutes
- Denver about 8.9 miles. Consolidated city and county with its own contractor licensing; Denver Water supplies the water.
- Watkins about 7.8 miles, ZIP 80137. Listed here without a page of its own; call and the dispatcher confirms the address, because the ZIP crosses city and county lines.
Further out
- Centennial about 11.1 miles. No city water or sewer; districts differ by street.
- Greenwood Village about 11.9 miles. City permits for plumbing and water heater work; several districts.
- Castlewood about a 19-minute drive. A Centennial neighborhood; do not confuse it with the Castlewood district.
- Commerce City about a 20-minute drive. A separate water district softens the water to about 7 grains per gallon.
- Lone Tree about a 23-minute drive. Districts split at I-25; the city requires a business license on permits.
- Englewood about a 24-minute drive. Englewood Utilities serves the city; several ZIP codes are shared.
- Southglenn about a 24-minute drive. A Centennial neighborhood with a Littleton mailing name.
Schematic map, not to scale; positions approximate.
ZIP codes served by this dispatch network
The chips list every ZIP code the network covers, grouped by area. Several are shared with neighboring cities, and 80015 and 80016 appear under both Aurora and Centennial, so no ZIP code is claimed as exclusive. Coverage is confirmed by street address when you call.
Aurora (the hub city)
- 80010
- 80011
- 80012
- 80013
- 80014
- 80015
- 80016
- 80017
- 80018
- 80019
- 80040
- 80041
- 80042
- 80044
- 80045
- 80046
- 80047
Denver page
- 80201
- 80202
- 80203
- 80204
- 80205
- 80206
- 80207
- 80208
- 80209
- 80210
- 80211
- 80212
- 80214
- 80216
- 80217
- 80218
- 80219
- 80220
- 80221
- 80222
- 80223
- 80224
- 80225
- 80226
- 80227
- 80230
- 80231
- 80232
- 80235
- 80236
- 80237
- 80238
- 80239
- 80243
- 80244
- 80246
- 80247
- 80248
- 80249
- 80250
- 80251
- 80252
- 80256
- 80257
- 80259
- 80261
- 80262
- 80263
- 80264
- 80265
- 80266
- 80271
- 80273
- 80274
- 80281
- 80290
- 80291
- 80293
- 80294
- 80299
Centennial page
- 80015
- 80016
- 80111
- 80112
- 80121
- 80122
- 80155
- 80161
Greenwood Village page
- 80111
- 80121
Castlewood page
- 80112
Commerce City page
- 80022
- 80037
Lone Tree page
- 80124
- 80134
Englewood page
- 80110
- 80111
- 80112
- 80113
- 80150
- 80151
- 80155
Southglenn page
- 80121
- 80122
Watkins
- 80137
How coverage is confirmed
- You call the dispatch line and give the street address.
- The dispatcher checks which city, county and district the address belongs to, because a ZIP code alone does not settle it.
- If the address is in range, a nearby network plumber takes the job; if not, the dispatcher says so on the spot.
Aurora itself has no separate area page: it is the hub, and the homepage covers it. The Aurora ZIP codes are 80010 to 80019, 80040 to 80042 and 80044 to 80047.
Watkins
Watkins is listed here with its ZIP code, 80137, and has no page of its own. It sits about 7.8 miles from Aurora and is a census-designated place, not a city, so it has no city government. ZIP code 80137 reaches into more than one city and county, which is why the dispatcher confirms the parcel before routing a call.
Pin positions and sources for the map
Pins come from the geonamescache city list, projected with a latitude-corrected fit:
- Aurora: 39.7294, -104.8319 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5412347)
- Denver: 39.7392, -104.9847 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5419384)
- Commerce City: 39.8083, -104.9339 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5417737)
- Greenwood Village: 39.6172, -104.9508 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5423908)
- Centennial: 39.5792, -104.8769 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5416541)
- Englewood: 39.6478, -104.9878 (geonamescache city list, GeoNames id 5421250)
Shown in the list without a pin:
- Lone Tree: not in the geonamescache city list, and no primary-source coordinate could be read.
- Castlewood: a neighborhood; no primary-source coordinate could be read.
- Southglenn: a neighborhood; no primary-source coordinate could be read.
- Watkins: listed place with no page of its own.
The grid carries no road, river or boundary names and implies no coverage boundary.
Plumbing problem near one of these areas?
The dispatch line answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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